May/June News from the GEC and GlobalEd Events

We have a great deal of news to cover this month! Find out about what’s going on at the ISTE conference this June, where to find teaching resources on our site, and then check out opportunities from global education organizations around the world!

Our next face-to-face event is happening soon... Our Global Education Day meetup at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference takes place on June 23, 2019. If you will be in Philadelphia then, come meet other global educators and organizations. We will be sharing resources and planning projects and events for the next year; attendees are encouraged to be actively involved. Details about GED are available here: https://www.smore.com/csuxh-global-education-day-at-iste-2019. We are excited to see friends at our 8th annual Global Education Day!

Do you have global education news or resources to share?If you have news and resources to share with our community, post in our discussion forum or post to Twitter using the hashtag #globaled19. We will re-share your items on social media and in our newsletter!

Check out these opportunities and resources.

Finally, here are a few items of interest that we’ve noticed this month.

The Experiment Digital is a fully-funded eight-week virtual exchange program for high school students from the United States and the Middle East region. Designed to connect students across the globe without leaving their living room, participants interact through videos, discussion forums, online chats, webinars, and playing games together. Through these activities, participants develop leadership and cross-cultural communications skills, speak with peers from different countries, and design youth-led projects to create positive social change. The exchange takes place online from June 24 – August 18, and students can participate from anywhere. Apply to join the 2019 cohort by May 20, 2019. Students ages 14-19 from the US, Algeria, Iraq, and Yemen are eligible.

Sing the clouds away in celebration of Sesame Street’s 50th anniversary! Sesame Street is encouraging people to record themselves singing the iconic Sunny Days song from this pioneering children’s program. For details and to register, click here.

The Global Kind Project is a global collaborative project organized by the Educator Collaborative. The Global Kind Project invites preK-12 classrooms to reflect on our individual and collective roles in building a more empathetic, positive and inclusive society through inquiry and social action. It starts on May 6th, but it looks like self-paced participation is possible at any time.

The PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival is open to young people of all nationalities with a keen interest in the pressing social issues of migration, diversity, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia. Submissions are due by June 16, 2019. (Via Connie Rensink)

Host a Global Goals Jam this September. The #GlobalGoalsJam is a two-day event consisting of short design sprints. Creative teams of designers, developers, and Jammers from the local community work together using a toolkit. Interventions will be created that will be aimed at short term targets in support of the long term goals. (Via Barbara Anna Zielonka)